GCHQ is openly recruiting computer network operations specialists for the first time.
The signals intelligence agency is looking to hire an unspecified number of staff to work in both cyber-security and cyber-intelligence roles.
Roles include working in teams "detecting and preventing attempts to attack the critical national …

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white hat hackers ...

Re: white hat hackers ...

I don't know. I'm still working out how being employed by GCHQ would make them White Hats. I thought a White Hat was someone who hacked your systems to let you know about the flaws so you could fix them, etc. Pen. tests and all that.

But I suppose you're automatically a white hat when you're employed by the Good Guys™. When you work for Theresa May, you don't have to doubt that you're on the side of Right - you know it!

The problem is ...

Re: The problem is ...

It is not the first time at all. I did an MSc. In I.T. security in the 90s with various other rum coves. A lot of us got an unsolicited invite from a certain Ms P. inviting us to imbibe at the trough of public security spending. There were also various ads in papers and itcaused a hoo hah then. In those days it was all for industrial espionage. Now I am not officially allowed to tell you the above but screw them I worked at the time for a bunch of apparent surrender monkeys. Soo greetings from Cannons pub in Gib. and screw the lot of them.

Re: While the salary is attractive

Re: While the salary is attractive

It's about half as expensive to live anywhere else in the UK if you don't live in London. £28k would be a comfortable life in Cheltenham, although having grown up there, I would add that it's boring as fsck.

Re: Wages

"Strict legal controls, safeguards and requirements apply to all GCHQ’s activities, which can only be carried out for the statutory purposes and in support of the national security priorities that are set by ministers,"

Didn't they already have the courts rule that some of the things they were doing were illegal, and only got out of it because of the loophole that an employee leaked details of it?

CyberIntelAIgent Security and Virtual Protection is AIMining Field of ET* HyperRadioProActivity

"Strict legal controls, safeguards and requirements apply to all GCHQ’s activities, which can only be carried out for the statutory purposes and in support of the national security priorities that are set by ministers," it said.

Oh please, you cannot be serious.

If that be the case, and I wouldn't like to be believing it in the first place, is GCHQ unfit for future cyber intelligence and security purpose. There aint no rules regulating key players in these explosive new Great Games, and to think and believe that there are, has one immediately displaced and relegated to the sub-prime divisions, to be kept disadvantaged.

And if £28k is the pay, does the the private sector pay more than twice as much for exactly the same sort of thing? ........

Principal Engineer - Cyber Security [QUB]

Pay peanuts, get monkeys does not a prime force make.

Having said that, knowing what needs to be done to be effective in the field, has one able to command whatever one requires, and that be a richness beyond compare or argument.

Re: CyberIntelAIgent Security and Virtual Protection is AIMining Field of ET* HyperRadioProActivity

"Strict legal controls, safeguards and requirements apply to all GCHQ’s activities, which can only be carried out for the statutory purposes and in support of the national security priorities that are set by ministers,"

Huh

As far as I'm concerned GCHQ, NSA and the like are the actual traitors and biggest dangers that normal citizens face. Terrorism etc is just a useful cover and excuse. Historically more people are killed by their own governments and these scum are just enabling a 1984-type situation where there can be no genuine dissent/protest, what was the quote, 'a boot stamping on a human face, forever' ?

Missing a comma?

How about 'Britains Got Telnet'

Each week you could have two opposing teams of four peeps on a TV show, drawn from say; pub quizers, gamers, librarians, IT folk and, of course, ordinary working people (TM). Each team has seven days to find out as much information about the other team members as they can. Categories could include; Hobbies, Health, Finance, Sports and On-line shopping etc. Methods could include your more traditional sifting through the contents of bin bags, intercepting mail and binocular focused observation. Tactics could involve calling the other teams bluff by threatening to reveal something really juicy, even though no such material exists. As the competition progresses the time period allowed could be reduced. In the later, more difficult stages, the teams might have to follow a randomly selected tourist from say a major airport hub and determine his/her identity and reasons for travel without drawing attention to themselves. You could even have all manner of diversionary tactics and double agents!

The sad thing is ...

... I would love to support my country; and would love to develop my skills in this area. But because I strongly object to STASI like perma-pansurvelliance, which is absolutely unjustified by a bit of amateur terrorism, I'd never get the clearance. But then I don't much fancy a massive pay cut either.

Is it a sad thing when IT is a good thing?

The media/newspaper copy though, AC, does give the impression, however false it may presently be and currently accountable from the tray of Theresa May, that status quo systems and politically connected non-entities have a handle on cyber intelligence matters with creative command and crucial control of computers and communications ..... Live Operational Virtual Environment AIMachinery.

And such is no sad and bad and mad and rad thing in the right hands, hearts and minds when a novel craft for noble vessels that server not as vassals for and/or with weaponry in AI and NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive IT ..... Servicing Head Quarters, Titanic Disruption and Chaos with CHAOS, Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems. IT is Great and Good Internetworking Game Thing.

Re: Is it a sad thing when IT is a good thing?

Oh, and lest the penny hasn't dropped yet ....IT is in AI a Great and Good Internetworking Game Thing too.

And for the Few in Mentoring Charge of Monitoring Fleets, Per Ardua ad Astra MetaData and all that Commands CyberIntelAIgent Control of Virtually Live Systems with Practical Lines of Communication .... with Stealthy Zeroday Attack and Defence Plans in FailSafe Escape Flight Waves.

Is it a thing when IT is a thing?

Is it a sad thing when IT is a good thing? Of course not. Quite the contrary.

And furthermore, just in case you have not yet, or are unable to realise such things by reason of not being properly informed or just not paying any due care and attention to the unfolding and unravelling geo-political landscape, is there an epic Battle for Britain raging but there will be no Yanking of Sterling and Stirling Assets for Impoverishing Follies that benefit Rich Fools with Dismal Portfolios of Dumb Utilitarian Tools.

The lads and lasses in blue-skies thinking for virtual machines are seeing to that and ensuring that evolution delivers an altogether different counter-revolutionary result.

Human Ex Machina

Still offering a fantastic op but rubbish pay scales but hoping to find some people taken in by the glamour over logical thinking and ending up with a cultural petri dish all thinking the same way then?